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I think it is a tragedy of major proportions. I would simply say, there are those of us who feel we should stay in session for lots of reasons, not the least of which is to pass a farm bill. If we cannot come to some kind of an agreement…

I simply say that when you look at these kind of facts, I think one would have to conclude that any time you are going to have a welfare payment on top of what I have just outlined here at $3.10 a bushel--I would add that even if corn went…

I suggest that never before in history have we been so late in deciding what a farm program is going to be in the year that the crop is going to be planted. That has to stop. I do not know how to end this impasse that we have but the…

I would love to vote for a piece of legislation. I hope the conference committee comes back with one in a form I am able to vote for it. I am prepared not to just embrace the future but to make a bet, based on my strong belief that there…

I ask the Senator from Montana a question: Does he believe that the people of the United States, having granted a franchise to somebody to operate a service using a piece of the frequency bandwidth, should say, ``You own it, do whatever…

I am perfectly willing to have a debate about the comparative analysis between the Homestead Act and private property and franchises granted to phone companies to have a monopoly to deliver a local telephone service or to a television…

It is not the same. Mr. President, I ask the Senator from Montana, did the Senator believe we should not pass laws restricting what broadcasters can put over the airwaves? We do not have similar laws for people in their home. I can engage…

I can answer the question, now I understand what the Senator is saying. You are saying that bandwidth and a piece of real estate are the same? They are not the same. In that regard they are not the same. The people's airwaves are licensed.

If you want to talk of the Homestead Act, it has many specific requirements for the individual to develop, and if they worked the land and developed the land, they owned the land.

One of the things the public needs to understand, it seems to me, is that these companies have been given public franchises. They made their money not as a consequence of going out and starting a business and trying to get customers to buy…

I wonder if my friend also will talk about something else that I think is terribly important. That is, all of us, when we go home and talk to people who are working, they feel a great deal of insecurity about their jobs today. As I saw…

First of all, I ask my friend from North Dakota, Mr. President, is it not the case that one of the arguments we have heard all along for this bill that we are going to get more competition? Are Time Warner and Turner competitive?

Will we not get less competition as a consequence of bringing these two companies together?

while I believe this bill is the best that can be achieved during this period of tight budgets and a changing world, there is one part of it that makes me uneasy. All of us were presented earlier this week with media stories that the…

I rise to endorse the views of my Chairman and Chairman Thurmond. Continued close collaboration between the Intelligence Committee and the Armed Service Committee can only result in the best possible intelligence for the military, together…

I rise to describe a bill which has not attracted much attention this year, the intelligence authorization bill for fiscal year 1996. This year the intelligence bill is not the venue for controversies over the foreign policy issues or…

As a consequence of the Domenici amendment, an offset is not needed. That is what my modification did, was to strike it. His is a straightforward argument against this amendment. It can only be made on the basis the Senator from Texas…

the modification basically was done as a consequence of really not needing an offset now, as I explained earlier, from the Domenici amendment. Staff informs me the $18.9 million we are adding back is available in the bill. This is a very…